Mission:
We are seeking an agile Engineering Location Lead for the UK to support our Delivery Team at Colt DCS. The role will deliver technical excellence and leadership across the UK projects to ensure on time and on budget delivery. You will lead and manage a multi-disciplinary technical and design management team in the UK delivering multiple Hyperscale data centre projects. You will be responsible for ensuring the technical delivery of these projects and be accountable for consistency and adherence with employer’s requirements and specific customers’ solutions on multiple projects in the UK. This shall be achieved in a combination of either dedicated project design managers reporting directly into you or in the role as design manager yourself for projects.
You will report to the Regional Engineering Manager (UK / EUR) of the Major Builds Delivery Team in Colt DCS and be based in the UK with a focus on our London portfolio.
You will play a leading role in the delivery of a multi-disciplinary design, managing external engineering consultants and contractors to meet programme, design and budget for the successful delivery of our projects and to achieve cost effective and resilient infrastructures in line with Colt’s Global design standards.
The successful candidate must take an agile approach to design, cost and programme & project management, providing solutions to potential issues and having a direct input to the business performance, ensuring that we, as a team, deliver on time and on budget, every time.
The role requires excellent people management skills:
To enable efficient communication, provide motivation, build trust amongst participants and stakeholders and demonstrate a willingness to see others succeed.
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of engineers working on data centre construction projects, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
- Foster a positive team environment, encouraging collaboration, innovation, and professional development.
- Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular performance reviews, and provide constructive feedback to team members.
Outcomes:
Responsibility to ensure the outputs from the UK engineering team meet the business requirements at a technical level and provide ways of efficient delivery. Alignment and cross collaboration with other functions to input into a “one team” mentality from development to operations. The role will require continuous support of Colt’s Design Managers and Engineers to ensure objectives’ alignment with agreed programme and costs and ensuring fast and responsive communication lines between engineering and project management, for faster and effective decisions.
At project level, you should manage the Design Programme to ensure on time creation and review of Employers Requirements (ER’s), tender information and design documentation issued for planning and Construction.
You will be required to steer and guide and challenge the external Design Consultants and Contractors when required taking a ‘Trust but Verify’ approach, to ensure they deliver a design to meet the requirements of the Design Brief, periodically assessing and evaluating all project related design decisions presented by consultants and contractors with support if required from Senior DCS staff.
You will apply a commercial approach in all aspects of the work including design, engineering and construction, working with other engineering functions, Procurement and Delivery to ensure that the procurement of all items is conducted on the most cost-effective basis to drive reduction in costs, maximise our speed to Market, while obtaining the lowest PUE values that meet Colt’s sustainability and environmental targets.
You will be required to analyse, review and comment on design proposals, specifications, manuals, and other data submitted for Colt DCS review on BIM 360 Platform and to evaluate the feasibility, cost, and maintenance requirements of designs or applications; you will also actively participate to the team workload to ensure that all project documentation internal governance approvals are completed in a detailed and timely fashion.
You will support the Project managers to drive project programmes/delivery while working closely with the other design engineers and construction teams to ensure milestones and completion dates are met with successful handover to the client on time.
You will also work on Sales requests and liaise with customers to develop specific project design requirements, together with senior staff, delivery managers, to deliver first class projects to our customers.